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RARBG MAGNETS AND HOW TO USE THEM

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

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RARBG was one of the best-known and largest public torrent trackers for media. It died in May 2023. The official reason was various accumulated troubles maintaining the site, but it's suspected that the actual reason had to do with the new-ish copyright laws in Bulgaria that were lobbied by international media giants.

RARBG IS DEAD.

This is a HARD FACT.

Some random shitty websites nowadays are pretending to be "new rarbg", "the rarbg" or similar. DON'T TRUST ANY OF THEM. Not even "rarbg 2". Not even "rarbg official". Even back when RARBG was still alive, there were copycats like this. Best case scenario, they'll give you a poorly organized collection of magnets from random places and try to sell you some shitty vpn. Worst case, they'll redirect you to dangerous websites with malware scripts.

Consider this: Any good service or product doesn't need to pretend that it is supposedly some other service/product.

Consider also this: There is nothing on these shitty clones that you can't find on much more trustworthy public trackers, like below. You _don't need_ these "new rarbg" clones for anything.

Actual decent alternatives for 2025 that picked up RARBG's flag: https://torrentgalaxy.to/ or https://ext.to/

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While RARBG was alive, some people were archiving its torrents/magnets. Now that it's dead, several different collections are floating around online, in different formats.

I highly recommend that you use THIS one:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ulfihylx35oldftn7qosmk6hkhsjq5af

^ This is the original upload, shared by the person who collected and posted it. There are also some reuploads of this by other people, which have a different hash (different magnet). You can use them too, it doesn't matter, as long as the actual file inside is the same:

rarbg_db.sqlite - 775 MiB - CRC32 checksum 3F03CB95

(it's usually inside a smaller-sized .zip archive, that's perfectly fine.)

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Part 2/2 - Continued from above >>1345446

Why use THIS one?

- It has ALMOST 3 MILLION magnets from RARBG. It's the largest one.
- It's a DATABASE - "kinda like" a special set of Excel tables for efficient searching. MUCH better than some unwieldy text file.
- It has EXTRA INFORMATION about these magnets, such as torrent size and more.

To view it and search it, install https://sqlitebrowser.org/ or any other SQLite Viewer/Browser/Editor/etc.

Open the file rarbg_db.sqlite in this Browser. Go to the "Execute SQL" tab there.

Write the following and press Ctrl+Enter or the "Play" button:

SELECT printf("%.2f GiB", CAST(size AS FLOAT) / 1073741824.0) AS size_gib, title, dt, printf("magnet:?xt=urn:btih:%s&dn=%s", hash, title) AS magnet_link FROM items WHERE imdb = "tt1745960" ORDER BY size DESC;

> SELECT
a command to pick certain data and arrange it as follows
> printf("%.2f GiB", CAST(size AS FLOAT) / 1073741824.0) AS size_gib,
the first column in the table of results will be the size of the torrent. it's stored in the db in bytes. this formats it to gigabytes to be readable
> title,
next is the title of the torrent
> dt,
date of the upload to RARBG, to help you guess if it still has seeders
> printf("magnet:?xt=urn:btih:%s&dn=%s", hash, title) AS magnet_link
this assembles a ready-to-use MAGNET LINK from hash and title. you can COPY it from the table of results with RIGHT CLICK
> FROM items
we're searching in the table called "items"
> WHERE imdb = "tt1745960"
we want only the entries that have the "imdb" field matching Top Gun Maverick
> ORDER BY size DESC;
results are ordered by size, largest to smallest

Some torrents don't have an imdb field. Either they are not movies, or the uploader messed up. To find them, write this instead:
> WHERE title LIKE "%Top%Gun%Maverick%"
Use % before and after and between words, like this. It's a wildcard for text search. You don't know how EXACTLY each torrent is called ("Top_Gun" or "2022 Top Gun"?)
Beware, this is much slower.

>>1310087
Nope, it's alive and well.
https://1337x.ninjaproxy1.com/home/

torrent newbie question:

How do you safely torrent while being safe from viruses and glowieware? I don't even mean exe files. Do you run everything in a VM? what is your torrent setup like?

does it matter if i choose any countries on my vpn?